Music Video Directors

Music Video Directors 

Hiro Murai 

Hiro Murai is a Tokyo born Los Angeles based filmmaker. Probably best know for working with artists such as  Childish Gambino , Earl Sweatshirt and Queens Of The Stone Age. As well as working with music videos Hiro has also directed the short film “clapping the wrong reasons.” Not only this but in 2016 Hiro also collaborated with Donald Glover “Childish Gambino” again on the comedy TV show “Atlanta.” So what has Hiro Murai been awarded with ? In 2013 Hiro was awarded with the MVPA Award for Best Electronic Video for She Wolf. Then in 2014 he was awarded with the UKMVA Director of the year / Best Rock / Indie Video International QOTSA for smooth sailing. 

Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze is an American screenwriter  and actor. His most noticeable work in the music video industry is working with artists such as Daft Punk , FatBoy Slim, Beastie Boys and Kanye West. From the Range of different artist Spike has worked with we can see that he is a very versatile director who can adapt to different genres with ease. Jonze is also the co founder of the directors label , with filmmaker Chris Cunningham and Michael Gondry. Spike has been nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Director for Being John Malkovich, and Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Song ("The Moon Song") for Her. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 2014 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Her. 

Hype Williams 

Hype Williams was born in Queens New York in July 1970. Williams first started surfacing by tagging local billboards, storefronts and playgrounds using “HYPE” a his artist tag. Hype Williams most noticeable work in the music video industry was working on “All The Lights” By Kanye West which has 150,000,000 views on Youtube. This hugely successful video just shows how talented Williams is. Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta Rhymes' "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check", the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual Music Video Production Association Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith's “Gettin' Jiggy wit It", MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video (1999) for TLC's "No Scrubs", and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West's "Gold Digger". In 2006, Williams was honoured by MTV with its Video Vanguard Award, presented in honour of his achievements as a filmmaker.

Overall i feel that i have kept my music directors around the Hip Hop genre and i feel that i have chosen three world renowned directors who differentiate in their styles but all are very successful in what they do.